As sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, we all knew Donald Trump’s dalliance with transparency on Robert Mueller’s findings would come to a screeching halt once someone explained to him the difference between Attorney General William Barr’s 4-page hack job and Mueller’s 400-page-plus report. Now that Trump has learned those other 396 pages aren’t all dazzling pictures of him, he’s turning his ship around.
Just two weeks after Trump was arguing for public release—”I don’t mind. … Let them see it.”—Trump minds. Trump has now gone from “it wouldn’t bother me at all” on March 25 to his Monday declaration that Democrats are “crazed” about the report and “it will never be enough.” In case anyone mistook his meaning, he twitter screamed on Tuesday morning: “NOTHING WILL EVER SATISFY THEM!”
Trump topped off that tweet a couple hours later by retweeting a Fox News clip in which Alan Dershowitz argued that Barr doesn’t have any legal obligation to publicly release the report at all.
View the complete April 2 article by Kerry Eleveld of the Daily Kos on the AlterNet website here.